Micronaxx

“Don’t hate the playa”—at all. 🙂

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Oh hi, I’ve misplaced a Finnegan somewhere in this giant metal sculpture. You haven’t by chance seen him, have you?

When a guy’s wife & kids are off living it up on a glass-bottom boat, what’s he to do? Naturally he gets trussed up with a bunch of nerds, rides up a mountain on a Unimog, and then ziplines his head off (fortunately not literally!). 🙂

Though it’s a tad off-topic for the Micronaxx blog, here’s a little gallery of the adventure. (As for the boat trip, Margot’s phone crapped out, so we’ll just have to imagine Pancho the Sea Lion & the peanut-eating fish (which sounds like a crappy ’90’s band).)

So, this one time, Margot left me alone with the boys by a fountain… 😉

Who’s got four thumbs & loves some sunset beach-play?
These guuuuuys. 🙂 

Recipe: Take one (1) Mexican lucha libre mask, add two (2) Micronaxx, mix in liberal amounts of bacon, and stir wildly. 🙂

The boys have been enjoying the heck out of the pool in Cabo san Lucas, to the point that I can barely type this with my pruney fingers. 🙂

Mom-O had the great idea to buy them each a little Lego set that we could take with us & build while on vacation. Henry’s is particularly perfect as it features a Coast Guard diver & boat. That’s perfect until, of course, a tiny part (specifically a translucent blue diver’s mask) disappears (against a blue tile pool floor). Henry’s loud wails that “I’ll never be happy again!!” attracted the attention & help of a nice group of moms & dads visiting from Iowa without their kids—and luckily Dad-O’s probing toe saved the day. Balance was restored to the universe, and while the boys play the grown-ups have been enjoying chats with a cool older couple from Southern Cal (Berkeley grads who served in the Peace Corps in Afghanistan).

Here’s a little gallery showing the happy squirts in the water.

Our friend Donna spotted the dour little gent below in a book today & was reminded of Mr. Henry “I’ll just use my frown as a hat” Nack. I can see why!

Finn and I headed to Dr. S’s office earlier this week for his 6-year old check-up, which is required for entry into 1st grade this fall. Although excited to avoid vaccinations (no more needed until he’s 11!), he was not thrilled about sporting the “paper towel dress” required for the check-up. He kindly posed for a rather nervous shot in the gown before the doc came in to check him out. He also got to rock some awesome little headphones for his hearing test, which he passed with flying colors.

Current stats: 48 inches tall, 51 pounds. 85th percentile on height, 75th on weight, and right on track with his “big guy” teeth starting to come in. He’s grown so much this year – both mentally and physically – it’s kind of hard to believe. He’s reading now, in both English and Spanish, even working out words he doesn’t know! He’s doing simple math, writing and illustrating his own stories, taking art lessons, and has many good buddies in class and at daycare. We love our blond 6 year-old to pieces.

The lads & I had a ball attending Father-Son Night at Finn’s school. Just to send us over the moon, the whole thing was Lego-themed, featuring buckets of Legos to play with, a taco truck, and finally a screening of The Lego Movie complete with root beer floats. Man, I think I’m gonna have a conniption just thinking about it. 🙂

Anyway, here are our own “minifigs” hamming things up a bit beforehand:

Visiting Google again on Sunday, Henry was appropriately perplexed & even a little horrified by the life-sized Justin Bieber cutout that mysteriously shares our office space. We all are, son—we all are. :-p

Four-year-old Finn spent easily six months obsessed with getting what’s literally the world’s most complex Lego Technic set—namely, a giant German military truck called the Unimog—and me being me, we got it for his fifth birthday (see gallery). Thus you can imagine our delight upon encountering a real live Unimog at Google this weekend. Behold its rusty majesty! 🙂